yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Either remove the link from Startup, or unpack the nbh file and delete the relevant files, as well as the entry in initflashfiles.dat, then repack the rom and then flash.
[HTC Excalibur] skyler17:
Best rom ever

My only major problem is that the latest build's celetask doesn't show how much memory is free/ batterypower

Oh, and strangely the only web page that internet explorer refuses to load is mini.opera.com which is really annoying :(

Why would it do this?
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Open Celetask, go to menu/ options/ show status bar.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Just remove the .lnk file from \Windows\Startup.
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
I feel so dumb -___-

Completely forgot...
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Yea, I occasionally use VPN to ge into clients' networks. No biggie but if there's room... Also, I miss the vibrate confirmation when shutting down or rebooting. Can that be put back in?
[HTC Excalibur] skyler17:
oh wow, brilliant.

I cant belive I couldnt have looked for that myself

Im a dummie
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
I used this and then Settings>Home Screen>MiniWeather Media Topbar.

All coloured icons appeared on the top bar and I am now peace with the World and myself.

Hope this helps.
[HTC Excalibur] killa-mckilla:
dig it

i completely dig this ROM

Still waiting on how to change boot/splash screens so i can rock my htc and at&t "star wars" splash.

muah
[HTC Excalibur] The Rotagilla:
Installed without issue. One thing I noticed is that once I navigate off the home screen and the clock shifts to the upper right hand corner it displays military time despite the fact that I have the phone set to the twelve hour clock. Also (and these may be my imagination) -

1) Boot up time seems longer than the Rose ROM.

2) Call sound quality seems to be poorer than the Rose ROM but a reboot seemed to help a bit.

3) There's a speaker buzz/rattle that wasn't there before the switch.

What happened to Notepad/Quick Notes? I used that all the time and don't see it anymore? Bluetooth and WiFi fired up right away with no problems.

Very slick looking ROM, killer work. Thanks for putting this together. :D
[HTC Excalibur] Ghostwarrior73:
OneNote is in the Office Mobile Folder
[HTC Excalibur] The Rotagilla:
Not OneNote. The icon looked like Post-It notes.
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
I apologize if this glitch was already mentioned prior to the latest release.

After the full day of running, the only glitch I'm noticing is when I am in messaging or Opera Mini. It's not consistent, maybe every third use but what happens is this: 1. click on website link or open message 2. after 2-3 seconds, phone reverts to home screen without any button push. 3. re-open window used and action still works (ie website still loading as if program had remained open). So, just a minor annoyance but does start to unnerve a guy when web surfing to typing out an email.

On the plus, I'm noticing a significant increase in battery life thus far and everything else is working smooth as silk.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Yeah I forgot to include the shortcut to it.. never used it.. so I didnt notice it was not there. heh I will include it in the next release.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
More battery life is always good. Can't complain about that :)
[HTC Excalibur] skyline247:
SPL Unlock

I encountered this same thing when trying to flash the SP2 ROM. After converting back to my original T-Mob. Then I got to thinking that the SDA Application unlock was not performed yet. Two steps, pretty easy. Download the 2 attached files - SDA_ApplicationUnlock and SurrealNetworksAppUnlock.

1. Extract the SDA_ApplicationUnlock to your computer. Make sure your Dash is connected and Synced via USB. Click on the SDA_ApplicationUnlock with the keys Icon. It should bring up a box that says SDA FULL Application Unlock. Click the "Remove Lock" button. It will do its thing, then ask you to reboot your phone. Don't reboot just yet.

2. Via Active Sync copy the SurrealNetworksAppUnlock file to your phone. DO NOT UNZIP, just transfer the whole file to your phone. After transferring, go to file explorer on your phone and find the SurrealNetworksAppUnlock file. Click on it. After installing, Reboot your phone.

You should now be able to flash the ROM to your phone. Hope that helps.
[HTC Excalibur] skyline247:
PS

Also, btw, if you are going to be doing a lot of flashing different ROM'S, or even this one, I would recommend following NRGZ28's advice in post #3 and flash the hacked bootloader.

And again, thank you NRGZ28, the RC2 is working just great. I have not really encountered any issues other than aesthetics. I don't really like the boot screen and am working on changing that to my personal preferences. Other than that, its FAST.
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
Got that right :) This sucker is slick. Thanks again!
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
This ROM is friggin fast. I cahnged the page pool to 12, clocked at 240 and the response time is almost instant.

I am trying to live with the jogger icon in the taskbar, but it that is the only issue I have I will be totally thrilled.

Excellent Job!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Voice Command and USB connection issues

quick questions: how is MS Voice Command implemented in this ROM? Because although it is stated as being include in the release i cant seem to find it, and the shortcut key link to cyberon voice command screen:confused:

Next, is it a know issue with connecting this ROM to Windows Mobile device centre in vista and windows 7? Because i can never get an activesync connect over usb, as a note windows recognizes the device as "windows mobile remote connect device"

please any help would be much appreciated

BTW great job with the fixes, i'm truly loving this ROM
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Here is the registry hacks I made to mine in order to hide the Edge icon, the jogbar icon and the line number icon, of those the only one you need to do after each reset is the line number, messing with the registry can make your phone useless until you hard reset it so be careful

Hiding jogbar icon

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Jogbar\Settings

Change EnableHTCJogBarIcon from 1 to 0

Soft reset

Hiding Edge icon

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL

Change EnableDifferGprsEdgeIcon from 1 to 0

Hiding Line number icon

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Phone

Change MultiLine Capabilities from 1 to 0

Call History

Change the following settings to modify the Call History

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone

Change CallHistoryMax to your taste

True SMS Delete

In the registry simply change the following values -

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INBOX\SMSTEXT

change the DWORD MaxDeletedMsgs value to - 0
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
You could always install NRG's Mini Weather App for the Rose ROM, even if you choose not to use it, this will change the panel icons to colour ones. I would be surprised though if you decided against using it, it's bloody good.

Then, install the Rinku TopBar cab from post #206, alter your homepage as in same post and, ta-dah colour icons on the top bar and no Joggr icon.

Result. :)

Like this ...
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Is it possible to modify registry to allow usb connection with vista, because the "enable advanced network connections" options which would be available under "Usb" in setting does not exist in this ROM.?
[HTC Excalibur] Jarc112:
amazing rom, so far i havent had any mayor problems, just that the audio manager hangs and close, i want to thank all the people that may this happen,

one more thing i cant get may hotmail account to syc i have try almost everything and i try searching for the windows live but i can find it, so i appreciate any help.
[HTC Excalibur] alfatech:
Thanks NRGZ28. Great job. I installed without problems.
[HTC Excalibur] Doku:
Excalibur 6.5 based ROM

nrg- Any chances of you doing a 6.5 based ROM?
[HTC Excalibur] baritono:
Active sync with Vista

Firstly thank you for a great rom. I have not checked these forums for some time now. I have flashed with success, but I have the exact same problem as the fellow above: Absolutely no active sync. I have installed and reinstalled the Mobile device adapter, changed cables, hard reset, changed ports, enabled internet sharing-which connects by the way-and then disabled it, reinstalled mobile center 6.1, disabled all firewall/spam, checked in Services to make sure necessary services have started, and still nothing. As of now, I have no way of connecting via USB, even through the bootloader and it is a nice puzzle. Even without my PIM, it a very nice rom. Yes, if it is possible via registry edit to change the settings in USB-to-PC to untick the "enable advanced network functionality"-which unfortunately does not exist under "connections"-that would allow for future rom updates. Thank you again for any help. Cheers.
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
in case you need to reflash

hey just in case you need to reflash to access your pim, just use the official ROM for your device then flash the modified bootloader so u can flash any ROM even without activesync working properly. Also, there is a file called "PIM.vol" in the root directory of the dash, if u regularly backup this file to your memory card then you can simply copy it back to the root directory after flashing and your pims will be there, hope this helps.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Damn.. I forgot how good that look on the home screen. I really need to cook in my miniweather now! :D It seems like ages ago that I coded miniweather... :P

I think I might be missing some vista specific settings. I will get this rectified in the next release. If we're lucky and I have the time, that will be tonight.

A 6.5 PRO version ? U're crazy man! lol
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
thanks for the reply, definitely looking forward to it.
[HTC Excalibur] baritono:
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I do not have a backup of an official nbf file, and I assume, the only way to flash an official rom-if one does not have active sync working-is to do it through the mini sd. I am not sure if I am correct. All official roms I found are to be executed from the PC through active sync, which of course cannot work in my case. If you have any more suggestions I would love to hear them because I am stuck! Thanks again.
[HTC Excalibur] Doku:
Not really :p I have access to excalibur 6.5 ROMS, but can't let it out obviously;). They are stock so not as good as yours are:D

BTW: i meant excalibur version not touch pro. I own both.
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Just go to the "Official ROMs" section of this forum, download your OEM file, put your phone in bootloader mode, wait for vista to recognize it (it will trust me) then run the ROM update utility to flash the OEM rom.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
You sound even crazy'r now stock WM6.5 Excailbur ROM, considering WM6.1 isn't even stock on Excalibur or been released, then how do you have WM6.5 stock?

Or do you mean something different by stock?

If you do have stock Excalibur WM6.5 then why not share "Is that not what XDA is about?"
[HTC Excalibur] baritono:
Thank you for your help. I did try that and unfortunately vista does not recognize the dash. Yet, the mobile adapter in the device manager is there. I do have though the official nbh file (6.0 T-mobile) in the newly formated FAT32 mini disk. I have searched and could not find the answer how to update the dash from an nbh file through mini-sd. The file is named RUU_Signed.nbf. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3733857&postcount=3
[HTC Excalibur] Cyclonezephyrxz7:
Home Screen Panel

Hey,

This is an excellent rom...NO REGRETS upgrading here (even with the hassle of reinstalling everything) :)

Anyways, I liked in the Rose Rom (remake by Stylez and Ricky) the settings panel with 10 individual panels inside it, however on this one, there are only 5. I know how to make my own panels, but I just can't remember what everything was. Can someone help me out with this? Maybe a list of everything, and a set of icons i can use? (That would sure be helpful)

Thanks a bundle :D

and once again AWESOME ROM
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
Sound w/no picture?

When running this ROM; I get no picture when in Windows Media Player or Streaming Media. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what was done to correct it? Thanks for understanding.
[HTC Excalibur] Doku:
Sorry i meant UnOfficial. These builds are keyed (traceable), so can't contribute unfortunately. Hopefully someone can come up with 6.5 Excalibur kitchen.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
After much tweaking, 96dpi works now. I just uploaded a new CAB. Please test it on this ROM (great job NRGZ28) and give me feedback. Comm Manager is still not pretty but works. I will work on cleaning it up. Have fun!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=486339
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
96 dpi works almost flawlessly

Great job ookba!! 96dpi has been tested and is working nicely. i agree though, while useful it would be nice to get back the gorgeous comm manager if possible... but once again great work and thanks to both yourself and NRGZ28
[HTC Excalibur] killa-mckilla:
i also can no longer access the internet

im using at&t, was working before i flashed the updated rom... but no mo :(
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Sounds like you need to either re-run connection set up or just do a hard reset (clear storage). I have been using this ROM on AT&T for 2 straight days and it is rock solid. Internet works, Activesync connecting to Exchange works, phone is very snappy in general.

Try running connection set up, select AT&T, let it do it's thing, then reboot. If that still fails, hard reset, maybe even reflash as a last resort.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Are you talking about Sliding Panels? You can just connect to a phone using the Rose ROM and copy the contents of the \Application Data\Home folder to your desktop. Then, select the Panels you want (*.home.xml files) and copy them to your new ROM. I'm by a final release, NRGZ8 will add some custom panels including Rinku iconbar. Patience... :-D
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Yeah, my ONLY complaint is about the inability to get rid of the jogger icon in the taskbar.

Oh and one question for NRG, why did you lower the pagepool since the last release? Some people say they get more responsiveness with less. Was there a reason?
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
The reason was simply more available RAM. I will raise it back to 10 in tonight's release. Give me feedback on it.. for the release after that :)
[HTC Excalibur] cire6:
I've try it awhile ago and it was nicely done speed and response time but still have some issues to fix like for me when i play video in tcmp theres no audio coming out, cant find my storage card maybe its me too excited. my weather cant update but overall its a good rom for a beta.

will wait for the final

tnx and god bless
[HTC Excalibur] drifterrolly:
whenever i try to start opera it always turns off my wifi, which in turn opera doesnt start up because it says i have no internet.

also, how do i change the time on the clockontop to 12 hours?
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
The volume is all the way down by default on TCPMP. Use the UP key to raise it. Worked for me.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
new version in first post... huzzaaa....:D
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
Thanks for putting back VPN !

Downloading now..
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Hi NRGZ

First of all thanks for your hard work, couple of issues with this release,

1- the amount of available RAM is about half than the 050709a version with this version I change the pagepool to 9 and had around 11Mb free on the previous I got over 20 Mb free

2- In the previous version your NRG 1.3 Miniweather runs great, on this the screen shows that cannot use the specified layout

In general I like your previous version better, I'll be reflashing back and forth to report more differences.

Regards

Enrique
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
wowww thanx man ill try it now
[HTC Excalibur] EasyTiger6x13:
Longshot

This is just a long shot but is there anyway to do an Iphone esque type of threading/messaging system with the talk bubbles?
[HTC Excalibur] denisus:
I can confirm the RAM issue. Much less memory at the start and became even less very quickly. I couldn't see which process consums it. Looks like some awful leaks, that make the ROM unusable. BTW ROM by default has pagepool of 12, not 9 as stated. I changed to 9.

Anyway, NRGZ, thanks a lot for doing this! Looking forward for a fixed version.
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
hey , i flash this rom its great , i page pool to 8, at start up the ram is 20mb, but when i put 8gb sd card the ram goes to 13 mb, i deleted all the fikes in sd except the photos and videos etc, why is this happening'?? , sorry for my english
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
I meant to say "Some people they get more responsiveness with MORE pagepool.

Sorry for any confusion 0__0
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Still no vista connectivity

Hey NRG I just flashed the updated ROM, page pool at 14 lol, umm response is great the only problem is that vista still doesnt recognize it. Is it possibile to include the "Usb to PC" option that was found in "Settings" of previous ROMS, cuz i think its key to solving this issue. I think aless added it back his snap-based ROM to solve this. thank in advance
[HTC Excalibur] baritono:
Thank you for your help friends. I have flashed from SD with a Tmobile rom and everything is good. I will wait to flash back to this excellent rom when the PC to USB option is added as some of us have a problem connecting to Vista without that option. Cheers.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
New ROM with a 8.5 pagepool reuploading as we speak. If you want more available RAM, you might wanna redownload and reflash. It's not set to 8.5 down from 12.

USB to PC is not required for Vista. Reg entries are required for Vista. Thought my provxml added them, but I guess not. I dont have Vista so I cant really test... but maybe in the next version I'll test it wit my HTCP that runs Win7.
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
ok lets try it!!!!!! , thanx for your work, really really thanx

its installed but the problem persist , it start, without the sd, whit 20mb ram, but when i put the sd the ram goes to 11mb, dont know why
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
NRG, How'd you get the scrolling menus in Celetask? Is it just a setting somewhere, or a registry change? I've never seen that before on any other ROM until now. :)
[HTC Excalibur] jdhelstrom:
wifiinit is still having problems on 50709a. it doesn't seem to be hanging, just not starting half the time. when it doesn't start, clicking on the link manually enables wifi just fine. sapsettings.exe however does stay running, not sure if this is appropriate

even at this stage, it seems as stable as any other rom i've used.

Other things i've noticed...

1. Starts up incredibly fast.

2. There is absolutely NO static on calls or over the bluetooth headset, as a couple people have commented.

3. Synced right up to my exchange server, first try.

4. Bluetooth has started every single time without fail.

5. as far as the vista activesync is concerned, serves all y'all right for upgrading to such a crappy version of windows:)

somewhat related:

miniweather is badass, but it seems like the 5 day forecast panel is missing the settings soft key. It only appears on the 10 day detailed forecast i had to uninstall it tho, since i need to be able to control how often it updates, and i couldn't figure out how.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
I can confirm some of the issues people are having. Memory does drop quickly. Strange. PP at 8-9MB seems like the ticket.

No startup sound and start/shut vibrations. And, for crying out loud.......Why did you take away my JogBar icons!!?? ;-) Maybe a checkbox to put em back?? hehe. Also, I liked the JogBar CPL from the 42709 release.

Oh yaaa! IE6 ROCKS brutha!!! Keep it up! Good job though as always.
[HTC Excalibur] jdhelstrom:
oh yeah, i forgot, thanks nrg, if it wasn't for you and a bunch of other people on here, we'd all still be stuck on the brightpoint rom, or even worse, the t-mobile one.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
You mean.. the animated menus ? That's always been a "trademark" of my ROMs. ricky and styles took that out in their "remakes". :)

You dont need to control how often miniweather updates. It knows when it needs to connect again and update. There's no need to update less often than an hour. I tried to explain that to people before, but they dont wanna listen :P

Hmm strange.. my memory stays where it's at... Maybe the new IE6 takes up more RAM now, since it's part of the operating system.

Amen to that!
[HTC Excalibur] dewey1973:
What version of SmartToolkit works best?
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
NRGZ, great rom.

I noticed that my cursur is missing in Windows Explorer !

and free memory is little bit low.

We are alost there..
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
It's weird how some are having trouble with Vista. I didn't have any trouble syncing-up. I have it set to automatic. My only problem is no picture in Windows Media Player or Streaming Media. I'm running the latest version of the ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
RC08 is the one u want.
[HTC Excalibur] Azuske:
i just have a problem with the XT9... I cant turn it off
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
Go to Messaging, select Text Messages, select Menu, and New. Hold Alt and Space at same time till drop menu pops-up. chose ABC and you good to go.
[HTC Excalibur] DonutYankee:
Just installed the new ROM, and ir pretty much seems perfect. The only remaining problem I have is that there is still no battery meter in the "Settings" tab on the home screen. Internet Explorer works fine and ROM is snappy and responsive. Excellent job as usual, NRG.
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
can some one post windows live messenger cab because the one its herre in forun doesn't work, thanx
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Yeah but that's not really a "problem" now is it... That was a feature ricky added to his ROMs and you're just missing it.. that's all. :)
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
Battery Meter?

I've got one. No battery icon granted but a percentage remaining.

Is this not part of the ROM?

Or is it another benefit of installing MiniWeather?

I'm off to see if I can add a battery icon ...
[HTC Excalibur] DonutYankee:
Oh, my mistake. I assumed the battery meter was part of the basic 6.1 ROM. I'd like to put that in as a suggestion for the next ROM update. :)

Also, as another posted said, the available RAM is lower in this ROM, but not really a problem, just that the higher number on the previous version was a nice luxury.
[HTC Excalibur] XJeFX:
I need it too... plz some one post it... i join the mobile.live.com web with IE from my phone, it ask me to login, but never to download windows live mail so i can't configure my e-mail :(
[HTC Excalibur] s1l3nt:
cant u just download it from

http://www.windowsliveformobile.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx?ocid=WMDownloadsPC

jus enter ur number on top right corner
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
Is this any good?

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-A2B5C0707F36/SFONE/WindowsLive_NoIM_0409.cab

Not tried it myself but it is the Standard, (SP), version from the Man. :)
[HTC Excalibur] XJeFX:
it works! thanks man!
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
Ended up going back to the 050709a, the memory issue is pretty bad and causes my mail program to shut down when I use UCWEB. I start with about 8-10 but drops fast.

Also, something odd, SBP backup would not restore the backup made on 050709a. Received an odd screen showing powerfail something and would hard reset. The backup did restore fine when I downgraded.
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Why did the amount of available RAM I had on the last release drop from 20 to 8 megs 0_0

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I'm reverting xD

Edit: added the word 'available'
[HTC Excalibur] Ryanmo5:
Great job NRG, as usual great work!! :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
The original download had a PP of 12MB which was unbalanced. I changed it to 8MB and it's working well. Syncs with Vista and any OS you can think of. Memory avail is 20MB. Still working out the bugs. NRG will have this situated soon. :)
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
12? I thought it just up'd pagepool to 9?

Well I'll try that real quick before I go back to the last release.

Oh and good job on the 2 96dpi updates today =D